PRE-BOMB SURFACE WATER RADIOCARBON OF THE GULF OF MEXICO AND CARIBBEAN AS RECORDED IN HERMATYPIC CORALS Academic Article

abstract

• Radiocarbon measurements of hermatypic corals from 4 sites in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and Caribbean Sea were made to estimate the marine 14C reservoir age (R) and the marine regional correction (R) for this region. Coral skeletal material from the Flower Garden Banks (northern GOM continental shelf), Veracruz, Mexico, and 2 reefs from the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela, were analyzed. Annual and subannual samples from 19451955 were milled and 14C composition was determined. In the Gulf of Mexico, average coral 14C is 52.6 0.7 and average 14C for the Cariaco Basin corals is 53.4 0.8. Average values for the marine reservoir age and R are computed with this data and compared with results derived from previous measurements made in the same regions. These values are important in calibrating the 14C ages of carbonate samples from the area.

authors

• Slowey, Niall

published proceedings

• RADIOCARBON

author list (cited authors)

• Wagner, A. J., Guilderson, T. P., Slowey, N. C., & Cole, J. E.

citation count

• 30

complete list of authors

• Wagner, Amy J||Guilderson, Thomas P||Slowey, Niall C||Cole, Julia E

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research  Journal

keywords

• 14 Life Below Water
• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3705 Geology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/S0033822200034020

start page

• 947

end page

• 954

volume

• 51

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200034020

user-defined tag

• 14 Life Below Water